um since the early 90's the success of transplants in the US has been hovering at 80%. And yes as time passes, this number drops off a bit, but still better than being dead. The more important thing to be looking at, is the risk of post operative infection, invasive fungal infections which kill more people after surgery than transplants do. As well, there have been major developments in even transplanting infected organs into those already infected w/the same condition. SO, even dieased organs are useful. You first post makes the ludicrous implication that all organs are infected w/some disease. That could not be farther from the truth. You body's rejection is not due to the organ being infected, but simply not always being a perfect match. Which can be worked around with medications and drugs to shut off the body's assault on the new tissue If you had done any real reading you would know that the transplant community has taken even more steps after the recent rabies incident involving transplanted tissue , which was not generally tested for on donated organs. Also, many heart transplants are now proceeding without the need for extraneous amounts of blood transfusion so these types of operations get safer all the time. You are more likely to go in for an operation and come out missing the wrong appendage than contract an infectious disease from a transplant.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer